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On-demand GMAT prep courses are quite the norm for today’s GMAT candidate. Such courses offer the flexibility in pace, place, and prioritization of one’s GMAT prep. However, there are various prominent companies offering such courses and many do provide compelling on-demand prep options. Frankly, no one course may suit everyone and one must have an objective approach for finalizing a course that suits one’s style the best. Here is a post to help you have an organized approach for choosing the “best on-demand GMAT program” for yourself.
Broadly, there are five factors that you must look at while deciding on an on-demand GMAT prep program-
1. Scope and quality of conceptual videos.
2. Quality and number of practice questions.
3. Quality and number of full length practice tests.
4. Software quality, analytics, AI, and user interface.
5. Price.
1. Scope and quality of conceptual videos
First of all, take a look at the spread of concepts covered by the resource. All four sections should be covered, pay close attention to this factor as many courses do not cover IR and AWA. The best type of program to go for is one that covers one small concept at a time and follows it with a dedicated exercise. This approach lets you learn a concept and then apply it to a GMAT like question. Try to be careful about resources which have very broad concept separation (for example, some materials have chapter such as “Number Systems” or “Algebra”) as this suggests that they will not do justice to the concepts at a granular level. Furthermore, you will find it difficult to grasp concepts that are presented so broadly. Smaller concepts are always easier to grasp. Watch a few sample videos to judge whether the style and pace of the videos suit you.
2. Quality and number of practice questions
It is crucial to ensure that the quality and feel of the practice questions by the prep company is similar to those of the real GMAT questions. GMAC spends quite a lot of time and resources developing its questions, it is in matching their quality and capturing their essence that many prep companies stumble. Solving questions that are not representative of the GMAT’s can confuse your understanding of the concepts and indefinitely prolong your preparation; so, please careful. Next, please take a careful look at the number of questions of each type offered and make sure that the course offers an adequate number of practice questions together with detailed explanations- if possible, video explanations as well.
3. Quality and number of full length tests
Please ensure that the test series’ questions’ quality matched the GMAT questions. After that, make sure that the tests are proper full-length tests with four sections as several test series come with only quant and verbal sections. Take a good look at the quality of explanations that the course has, as well how deep the analysis that the software provides is. It is also crucial that you compare how well the scores you got in the mocks are to your scores in the official GMAT mocks, in terms of number of mistakes per section, sectional scores, and overall scores. Of course, look at the number of mock tests being offered.
4. Software quality, analytics, and user interface
You will be spending tons of hours on the software platform you choose for your GMAT prep; hence, it is important that the quality of the platform is high and free of bugs. The on-demand option empowers the prep companies to employ some amazing analytics and deploy artificial intelligence for developing an intuitive and engaging platform for the users; so try to look at the extent of these features in the platform that you opt for. Further, also factor-in the user-interface factor- the closer to GMAT, the better it is; sometimes these small factors in prep can be the difference between 760 and 740 or 700 and 680.
5. Price
Frankly, we would suggest not worrying much about the price; you will be spending serious time and energy of your prep and must ensure that the investment is in the right direction. If the course you like is economical, it’s a plus; however, price should not be one of the most important factors in your decision.
How Experts’ Global has taken care of the aforesaid factors
Our method is to divide the entire preparation into three phases- Understand, Practice, and Master. In phase 1 – “Understand”, we place emphasis on building concepts. Every concept is represented as one of 100 small pieces of the GMAT syllabus. Each one of these concepts has a short video (5-10 minutes) that you will watch to understand a specific concept, you will then solve an exercise dedicated to it. There are also detailed solutions as well as video explanations that will ensure that you are able to absorb concepts in the first stage of preparation. We also provide a set of e-books for sentence correction that give the most comprehensive treatment to each of the GMAT sentence correction concepts. In phase 2 – “Practice”, you will solve thousands of practice questions, all hosted on a truly GMAT like interface and learn from detailed explanations, including video explanations. In phase 3 – “Master”, you will solve almost one thousand 700+ level questions, also hosted on the same interface. The interface also has a timer to alert you to when you go above the time available per question on GMAT. The software will also provide you with a sound analysis of your performance and has options to repeat complete exercise or just the incorrect attempts.
Our program has 15 full-length mock tests, complete with video explanations. This will ensure that you are able to freely use these tests without having to worry about how many you have left. As of this date, we have received feedback from more than 500 students worldwide, the unifying theme of which has been just how representative of the real GMAT our tests are. This includes the quality of questions, scope of the syllabus, language as well as tonality, user interface, and most importantly- scoring. Hundreds of students have praised just how close the scores our tests provided were to their official mock test scores, and later even the real GMAT scores.
We have also developed a number of modern and innovative features designed to make learning easier. One such feature is our GMAT Shots, a collection of ~200 two-minute long videos that cover all of the GMAT concepts and many test-taking strategies. We suggest that whenever you have spare two-minutes, please watch these short videos to enhance your GMAT concepts. The software also has a “wall” where you can put your “stickes”- your revision notes. As you use the software, you will find dozens of unique features that will make your learning easy and fun!
We invite you to take a freetrial of what is factually “the world’s most complete GMAT program” and take a well-informed decision-
[url]https://expertsglobal.com/gmat-preparation-online[/url]
Bonus:
Common mistakes to be avoided in the preparation
Starting with the official guide- as we have already explained, it would be best for you to save the official guide for later when you have gained a fair grasp over the concepts.
Not emphasizing enough of developing concepts- one of the most common GMAT prep mistakes is to start the practice mode before developing the concepts. If you do this, you risk doing a lot of material without really improving your accuracy and the duration of your GMAT preparation can become painfully long. Please develop concepts before going all out into solving questions.
Ignoring reading comprehension preparation- reading comprehensions are fundamental to a good score; they cover ~40% of the verbal section. Poor reading comprehension skills not only lead to wrong answers(and plenty of them) but they also lead to a lot of wasted time. Conversely, good reading comprehension skills will help you read and analyze data fast- a skill that will help you in every section of GMAT!
Focus on “tricks” rather than “concepts”- “tricks”, “techniques”, “short-cuts”…these will only help you so much, on GMAT. A good score on GMAT is dependent on having a robust grasp over the concepts. So, focus on “concepts” not “tricks”.
Focus on ‘rules’ rather than ‘meaning’ in sentence correction- most GMAT courses see sentence correction instruction, in terms of “what is correct on GMAT” rather than “how to ensure that correct meaning is conveyed effectively”. There is no end to “rules” and such an approach will not lead to better performance and will sap one’s confidence. Focus on “concepts” rather than “rules” so you can understand how to convey the intended “meaning”.
Leaving the mocks for the end of preparation- it is one thing to understand concepts. It is another to apply them on live questions, and performing on full-length tests is a third thing entirely. These three things are interrelated but each is highly distinct and important in its own right. Getting a good score on GMAT is a function of being at the top of your concentration for 3.5 hours and solving a test with different question types testing different skills under harsh time pressure. The exam temperament and skill take time to build. This is why you should not leave the mocks for the last days of your preparation. Take up a mock every 7-10 days and increase the frequency as you get closer to the actual GMAT.
We hope that this post was helpful. Good luck with your GMAT preparation!
Regards,
Experts' Global
On-demand GMAT prep courses are quite the norm for today’s GMAT candidate. Such courses offer the flexibility in pace, place, and prioritization of one’s GMAT prep. However, there are various prominent companies offering such courses and many do provide compelling on-demand prep options. Frankly, no one course may suit everyone and one must have an objective approach for finalizing a course that suits one’s style the best. Here is a post to help you have an organized approach for choosing the “best on-demand GMAT program” for yourself.
Broadly, there are five factors that you must look at while deciding on an on-demand GMAT prep program-
1. Scope and quality of conceptual videos.
2. Quality and number of practice questions.
3. Quality and number of full length practice tests.
4. Software quality, analytics, AI, and user interface.
5. Price.
1. Scope and quality of conceptual videos
First of all, take a look at the spread of concepts covered by the resource. All four sections should be covered, pay close attention to this factor as many courses do not cover IR and AWA. The best type of program to go for is one that covers one small concept at a time and follows it with a dedicated exercise. This approach lets you learn a concept and then apply it to a GMAT like question. Try to be careful about resources which have very broad concept separation (for example, some materials have chapter such as “Number Systems” or “Algebra”) as this suggests that they will not do justice to the concepts at a granular level. Furthermore, you will find it difficult to grasp concepts that are presented so broadly. Smaller concepts are always easier to grasp. Watch a few sample videos to judge whether the style and pace of the videos suit you.
2. Quality and number of practice questions
It is crucial to ensure that the quality and feel of the practice questions by the prep company is similar to those of the real GMAT questions. GMAC spends quite a lot of time and resources developing its questions, it is in matching their quality and capturing their essence that many prep companies stumble. Solving questions that are not representative of the GMAT’s can confuse your understanding of the concepts and indefinitely prolong your preparation; so, please careful. Next, please take a careful look at the number of questions of each type offered and make sure that the course offers an adequate number of practice questions together with detailed explanations- if possible, video explanations as well.
3. Quality and number of full length tests
Please ensure that the test series’ questions’ quality matched the GMAT questions. After that, make sure that the tests are proper full-length tests with four sections as several test series come with only quant and verbal sections. Take a good look at the quality of explanations that the course has, as well how deep the analysis that the software provides is. It is also crucial that you compare how well the scores you got in the mocks are to your scores in the official GMAT mocks, in terms of number of mistakes per section, sectional scores, and overall scores. Of course, look at the number of mock tests being offered.
4. Software quality, analytics, and user interface
You will be spending tons of hours on the software platform you choose for your GMAT prep; hence, it is important that the quality of the platform is high and free of bugs. The on-demand option empowers the prep companies to employ some amazing analytics and deploy artificial intelligence for developing an intuitive and engaging platform for the users; so try to look at the extent of these features in the platform that you opt for. Further, also factor-in the user-interface factor- the closer to GMAT, the better it is; sometimes these small factors in prep can be the difference between 760 and 740 or 700 and 680.
5. Price
Frankly, we would suggest not worrying much about the price; you will be spending serious time and energy of your prep and must ensure that the investment is in the right direction. If the course you like is economical, it’s a plus; however, price should not be one of the most important factors in your decision.
How Experts’ Global has taken care of the aforesaid factors
Our method is to divide the entire preparation into three phases- Understand, Practice, and Master. In phase 1 – “Understand”, we place emphasis on building concepts. Every concept is represented as one of 100 small pieces of the GMAT syllabus. Each one of these concepts has a short video (5-10 minutes) that you will watch to understand a specific concept, you will then solve an exercise dedicated to it. There are also detailed solutions as well as video explanations that will ensure that you are able to absorb concepts in the first stage of preparation. We also provide a set of e-books for sentence correction that give the most comprehensive treatment to each of the GMAT sentence correction concepts. In phase 2 – “Practice”, you will solve thousands of practice questions, all hosted on a truly GMAT like interface and learn from detailed explanations, including video explanations. In phase 3 – “Master”, you will solve almost one thousand 700+ level questions, also hosted on the same interface. The interface also has a timer to alert you to when you go above the time available per question on GMAT. The software will also provide you with a sound analysis of your performance and has options to repeat complete exercise or just the incorrect attempts.
Our program has 15 full-length mock tests, complete with video explanations. This will ensure that you are able to freely use these tests without having to worry about how many you have left. As of this date, we have received feedback from more than 500 students worldwide, the unifying theme of which has been just how representative of the real GMAT our tests are. This includes the quality of questions, scope of the syllabus, language as well as tonality, user interface, and most importantly- scoring. Hundreds of students have praised just how close the scores our tests provided were to their official mock test scores, and later even the real GMAT scores.
We have also developed a number of modern and innovative features designed to make learning easier. One such feature is our GMAT Shots, a collection of ~200 two-minute long videos that cover all of the GMAT concepts and many test-taking strategies. We suggest that whenever you have spare two-minutes, please watch these short videos to enhance your GMAT concepts. The software also has a “wall” where you can put your “stickes”- your revision notes. As you use the software, you will find dozens of unique features that will make your learning easy and fun!
We invite you to take a freetrial of what is factually “the world’s most complete GMAT program” and take a well-informed decision-
[url]https://expertsglobal.com/gmat-preparation-online[/url]
Bonus:
Common mistakes to be avoided in the preparation
Starting with the official guide- as we have already explained, it would be best for you to save the official guide for later when you have gained a fair grasp over the concepts.
Not emphasizing enough of developing concepts- one of the most common GMAT prep mistakes is to start the practice mode before developing the concepts. If you do this, you risk doing a lot of material without really improving your accuracy and the duration of your GMAT preparation can become painfully long. Please develop concepts before going all out into solving questions.
Ignoring reading comprehension preparation- reading comprehensions are fundamental to a good score; they cover ~40% of the verbal section. Poor reading comprehension skills not only lead to wrong answers(and plenty of them) but they also lead to a lot of wasted time. Conversely, good reading comprehension skills will help you read and analyze data fast- a skill that will help you in every section of GMAT!
Focus on “tricks” rather than “concepts”- “tricks”, “techniques”, “short-cuts”…these will only help you so much, on GMAT. A good score on GMAT is dependent on having a robust grasp over the concepts. So, focus on “concepts” not “tricks”.
Focus on ‘rules’ rather than ‘meaning’ in sentence correction- most GMAT courses see sentence correction instruction, in terms of “what is correct on GMAT” rather than “how to ensure that correct meaning is conveyed effectively”. There is no end to “rules” and such an approach will not lead to better performance and will sap one’s confidence. Focus on “concepts” rather than “rules” so you can understand how to convey the intended “meaning”.
Leaving the mocks for the end of preparation- it is one thing to understand concepts. It is another to apply them on live questions, and performing on full-length tests is a third thing entirely. These three things are interrelated but each is highly distinct and important in its own right. Getting a good score on GMAT is a function of being at the top of your concentration for 3.5 hours and solving a test with different question types testing different skills under harsh time pressure. The exam temperament and skill take time to build. This is why you should not leave the mocks for the last days of your preparation. Take up a mock every 7-10 days and increase the frequency as you get closer to the actual GMAT.
We hope that this post was helpful. Good luck with your GMAT preparation!
Regards,
Experts' Global
